TV Characters We Hate

[annathree]

Carrie Bradshaw.
My hate for Carrie run so deep that I cann't even stand to watch SJP in the gap commerical.

[katiebear3]

Andy fuckin' Sipowitz. This character has been through more wangst than is contained in a truckload of teenage fanfic. Son AJ gunned down by a perp, and he falls off the wagon. Wangst! Wittle Bobby's heart hurts. Wangst! Wife dead and remaining kid has cancer. Hey, wanna wangst about it? Another partner killed. Why doesn't this guy just throw himself on the third rail and be done with it. It's not his fault, but something about his character inspired this pyscho need to torture him. Through all this, they basically turned the hard-ass drunk he was in the first season to a big ol' soft, sensitive, fluffy, teddy bear who loves fishys and his adorable little son. In started in the very first episode of the new season, when he and Simone have this pukey bonding moment. The Andy I had loved was gone never to return.

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Patricia Heaton and Ray Romano in Everybody Loves Raymond (or as I call it: Everyone Does NOT Love Raymond). Is there an episode where they aren't bickering, nagging or insulting each other? Get a divorce already. I don't think I've ever seen the two hugging, kissing or even touching.

Actually, Ray is at least somewhat funny sometimes, but Patricia's character (sorry, the hate prevents me from looking up her character's name) just opens her mouth and sucks the funny out of every situation.

Another one I don't care for is Carrie on The King of Queens. She's another nagger with a husband that can never do anything right. And she's not funny.

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Smilla said:

Son of Sam?! That is the Best. Macroname. Ever. And perfect for that little shit. I had long since stopped regularly watching the series by the time he showed up, and his presence alone was enough to keep me away. Ugh.

I restate my hatred from the now-wretched, self-absorbed, maybe insane, grating Amy Grey. Hate her.

I completely agree on both points. Let's add in Amy's family, too: drama queen Maxine, crazy-as-fuck Donna, the sister-in-law whose name escapes me, and that bratty little girl. A hangnail is the end of the world to these people. I would prefer not to get stressed watching reruns on TNT. Yeah, I know, TNT is DRAMA, but chill out, Gray family!

[Smilla]

Andy fuckin' Sipowitz. This character has been through more wangst than is contained in a truckload of teenage fanfic. Son AJ gunned down by a perp, and he falls off the wagon. Wangst! Wittle Bobby's heart hurts. Wangst! Wife dead and remaining kid has cancer. Hey, wanna wangst about it? Another partner killed.

Don't forget that pesky bout with prostate cancer. That was a plot arc I could have lived without. The only thing I can figure as explanation for his exploitive suffering--beside the exploitation factor--was that his Trials of Job-like life experiences post-season one were instant-karmic payback for the twenty years he spent in a bottle, inflicting bad alcoholic shit on his family, coworkers and fellow citizens. But yeah, you're right, the over-the-top non-stop Hell Andy went through made him increasingly unwatchable. I'd had enough of that crap after Fox Mulder.

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Carrie Bradshaw, Carrie Bradshaw and Carrie Bradshaw...oh, and Carrie Bradshaw.

Okay, I get that this character is essentially supposed to be the embodiment of female wish fulfillment: spend unconscionable amounts of money on clothes and shoes without courting bankruptcy, drink all the cocktails you want with absolutely no impact on your looks or health, sleep with lots of guys with no danger of contracting an std or a troublesome reputation. Fair enough, sign me up. In the past, and, most likely, my not too distant future, I have drunk and eaten my own bodyweight in gin and olives or slept with guys I didn't particularly like, because there was nothing good on TV. Once, I couldn't pay my rent because the week before I had gone and spent an obscene amount of money at Tocca on an orange cashmere jumper that made me look like a Dutch football supporter.

My point is that I know this is self-destructive behaviour and wouldn't recommend it or justify it to anyone. Carrie on the other hand thinks she's some sort of emotional touchstone and the nexus of her friends' universe, when, in reality, she's a self-involved, materialistic, selfish, vain, willfully stupid and gruesomely girlish middle-aged woman, who is terrified she will be left on the shelf.

I blame Sarah Jessica Parker, but that's another thread.

[beniciosgal]

I love you, WarmBlankey!

I too think that a lot of Carrie's awfulness has to do with SJP. Carrie wasn't so bad in Season One, but she got worse and worse throughout the series, until she was absolutely unbearable by the end. The development of Carrie's character coincides with SJP being identified with Carrie in the media and her increasing involvement in the direction of the show. That combined with the fact that I don't think SJP is capable of acting suggests to me that Carrie was SJP.

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Thanks beniciosgal!

And, yeah, no kidding. Carrie definately became increasingly insufferable when SJP took over the executive producer role. It's pretty safe to say that by the second season the line between SJP and Carrie became increasingly blurred as SJP, not, as you say, a very good actress, and, ahem, something of a challenge to light, began to tout herslf offscreen as Carrie. And it didn't end with the series....to whit the horror that is the Gap's Pretty Khakis ad campaign.... SJP on the commercial cooing I enjoy being a girl. Shudder. Yeah, SJ, I'm pretty sure I had blast being a baby too, but I DON'T REMEMBER IT!!

Mr WarmBlankey saw the commercial with me and was also appallled. Then he said "nice ass". And all hell broke loose....

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Smilla said:

Son of Sam?! That is the Best. Macroname. Ever. And perfect for that little shit. I had long since stopped regularly watching the series by the time he showed up, and his presence alone was enough to keep me away. Ugh.

I wish I could take credit for the name, but someone at TWoP coined it when that awful semen demon first began to poison the show.

[diciembre]

I agree Katiebear3, the entire cast/show sucked in my opinion. Lame ass script, I tuned in on the last show just to see what the big deal was about this show, I couldnt get through the episode ,even though it was the last. So not funny, boring. HATE IT!